UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon announced that all same-sex marriages within the staff of the organization would be recognized. So far, the UN recognized civil unions or marriages of people living in countries where marriage equality is legal. The new policy will apparently affect 43,000 people.

A few weeks ago, the Human Rights Council of the United Nations adopted a resolution to protect the families, but the part including LGBT people had been blocked.

Indeed, several countries (Uruguay, Chile, Ireland and France) wanted an amendment stating that there are "various forms of families" be added to the resolution but Russia blocked it.

It's quite possible that Russia tries to add a "traditional values" amendment to this resolution at the next council meeting in September.

]]>info@lezbelib.com (E-Li)WorldwideFri, 18 Jul 2014 15:18:38 +0000UN Human Rights Council Wants To End Discriminations And Violences Against LGBTs In The Worldhttps://www.lezbelib.com/us-news/un-human-rights-council-wants-to-end-discriminations-and-violences-against-lgbts-in-the-world
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UN Human Rights Council organizes a conference to speak about the discriminations based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

In June, the countries of the United Nations had agreed to study discriminations, violences sudden by the LGBT community in the world and to find solutions to stop them.

This report was presented during this conference a few days ago and the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, said "it is time to act".

Some countries were completely against this like Pakistan and Islamic nations in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (56 countries).